If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

  • -- Margaret Heffernan 玛格丽特·赫弗南

如果公司完全依赖于你——你的创造力、独创性、灵感、销售技巧或个人魅力——没有人会想买它。风险和依赖性都太大了。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

那为什么还要用血来签名呢?对我来说,这似乎是一个明智的安排。我没有卖出大量唱片,唱片公司支付的预付款很少能收回。

Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

任何对水管工的独创性或足智多谋有任何怀疑的人,从来没有收到过水管工的账单。

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

好好作伴——也就是说,去卢浮宫。